Organisations are failing to share information

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The disturbing cases highlighted today by The Times reveal fundamental
flaws in this country’s approach to child sexual exploitation. They focus on
young white females but it is important to recognise that these crimes
affect both boys and girls, of all ethnicities, and the perpetrators include
men and women from a wide range of economic and social backgrounds.

In the UK there are pockets of good, innovative practice. Yet far more common
are regions where organisations fail to share information well.

Most local authorities have no one to co-ordinate such work and no one to look
at the bigger picture.